What Remains on Your Mind After You Are Done?: Flexible Regulation of Knowledge Accessibility.

ABSTRACT: The accessibility of stored knowledge has been found to decline over time after activation without further stimulation. A special case is goal pursuit; goal-related knowledge remains accessible until goal completion, and then its accessibility declines rapidly. We hypothesized that after goal completion the decline in accessibility of goal-related knowledge would be especially rapid for strong promotion-focused individuals because their motivation to eagerly advance beyond the status quo would make accessibility of this knowledge an irrelevant detriment. We hypothesized an opposite effect for strongly prevention-predominant individuals because their motivation to vigilantly maintain a satisfactory state would make accessibility of this knowledge continually relevant. The results of two stu

SUBMITTER: Hedberg PH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3134315 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature